Could AI really end humanity?

High-profile AI safety incidents, as well as warnings from industry figures about AI’s rapid progress, have stoked a new wave of fear about the future of humanity. Artificial intelligence systems are becoming more and more capable. Can we regulate this technology effectively – or is it too late to put the AI genie back in the bottle? Gideon speaks to Toby Ord, senior researcher at Oxford university’s AI Governance Institute, and author of ‘The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.’
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Further reading:
Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus (ft.com/content/c7685a7e-7745-4cbc-8053-4958d0e…)
Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction (ft.com/content/b7fe0fe0-0463-4f55-9590-0a7d08d…)
Donald Trump praises tech bosses’ ‘self-regulation’ of AI (ft.com/content/a8c1d14d-97aa-4b09-8162-adbcac1…)

Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval.
The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa.
Sound design is by Samantha Giovinco and Breen Turner.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com (ft.com/content/cb263cd8-b63d-4382-958b-fd06ee4…)
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